A new approach to the detection and statistical classification of Ca 2+ sparks

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4458-4465

  Bányász, Tamás ^a,b,d   Chen Izu, Ye ^a,b   Balke, C W ^a,b   Izu, Leighton T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c University of Debrecen ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSVERSE TUBULAR SYSTEM;

RATTUS;

EID: 34250307211     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.103069     Document Type: Article

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